Can Indiana Jones save our carbon souls?

Today the Energy Information Administration announced that the United States increased its energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by 1.6 percent last year.

But fear not — Indiana Jones is on the case.

Indiana Jones and the parrot of doom

Conservation International today is launching a campaign to save tropical rainforests — a huge carbon sink — and none other than Harrison Ford is putting his mug on their home page to promote the campaign. Here’s what Ford has to say about CI’s “Lost There, Felt Here” campaign (be careful — the Web page made my browser freeze up completely, so you might want to save any unfinished work on other screens before clicking here)*:

Every year, tropical forest equal to an area the size of England disappears. That’s a jungle the size of Manhattan lost every four hours. Saving forests is more than helping wildlife survive. It combats climate change, and allows people to continue getting the fresh water and food and medicines they need from healthy forest ecosystems.

You don’t think this could be timed to coincide with the new Indiana Jones movie, do ya? Nah. Couldn’t be. But in fairness, Ford is a longtime CI supporter, and even shut down a movie set for several days at considerable expense one time to attend a fundraiser here in Rain City.